MATERIALS FOR A REPORT ON THE PROVISIONAL REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT

[Page] 133. The French Revolution of 1789 and its allies, the peasants.
The German [revolution] of 1848 betrayed the peasants, "its natural 
allies" 22).

211: French terror = plebeian method 
of dealing with the enemies of the bourgeoisie (absolutism etc. 23)
— 313 — What ought the revolutionary government to do?
What did Engels advise it? (308) 24)

227.
d.

A BRIEF OUTLINE OF THE REPORT.

1. A strange question at first glance: the implementation of a provisional revolutionary government is not so imminent. The question has been forced upon us by literary polemic. Martyno and his argument up to 1905 ("Two Dictatorships," pp. 10–11).
The tailism of this argument.
The importance of clarity regarding the goals of social democracy.

2. An incorrect presentation of the beginning of the dispute
by Plekhanov (No. 96): it obscures Martynovism 23).

3. The general formulation of the question: socialist or democratic dictatorship? The absurdity of imposing the first.
The inevitability of the second.

4. Plekhanov's arguments in No. 96.
See separate sheets pp. U—v 26).
Then

a) Two forces: revolution and counter-revolution. Their armed struggle, the changeable fortunes of the struggle, the inevitability of struggle from both below and above.

b) Engels in [1848] 1849 on the Reichsverfassungskampagne—citations from the account 24)

c) The resolution and its brief justification. 1

1) Notes to the resolution are not relevant. It is probable that this note, like the note marked in note %, represents a list of organizations that sent their delegates to the Menshevik conference in Geneva, which met simultaneously with the III Congress, instead of to the Congress itself.

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The sum of organizations listed in both notes actually gives 17, which is also noted by Lenin in the second note.

2) The note to the resolution is not relevant.

3) The draft is a reworking of the previous document ("a").

4) Five points serve as a brief outline of the entire report.

5) The question mark refers to Issue No. of Iskra.

6) The following theses, of which eight relate to the justificatory part of the resolution, and the five subsequent ones to its operative part, apparently represent a further stage (after documents "a" and "b") in Lenin's development of the resolution. This is supported by the fact that these theses are closer to the final text that was read by Lenin at the Congress than the texts of documents "a" and "b". In particular, in these theses there appears a special point about pressure on the provisional government, independent of the decision on social democracy's participation in it (point 5 of the operative part). There is no corresponding point in documents "a" and "b", but in Lenin's final text of the resolution (and also in the Congress resolution) it entered in a somewhat modified form.

7) Ansprache — an address of the Central Committee to the League of Communists in March 1850. The address was written by Marx. (Works of Marx and Engels, vol. III, pp. 497–508, Gosizdat. 1921.)

Subsequently (under numerals 1–9) Lenin marks individual points of Marx's "Address," giving references to pages of the German edition in brackets.

8) Translation: Fear of "again descending to an appendage of bourgeois democracy..." (p. 79).

Translation: — to create alongside official democracies an independent secret and open organization of the workers' party... independently.

9) An excerpt from L. Martov's article "On the Agenda" [Iskra No. 93], used by Vladimir Ilyich in the report as a specimen of the general formulation of the question by Iskra. (Protocols, p. 218.)

10) An article by F. Engels "The Bakunists at Work," written in 1873, was published in the German social-democratic newspaper Volksstaat at that time, and in 1894 was reprinted in a collection of Engels's articles published under the title "Internationales aus dem Volksstaat." Lenin used this latter edition. The references to pages relate to it as well. In Russian translation, this collection of Engels's articles was published in 1906 under the title: "F. Engels. Articles 1871–1875." (Published by "Znanie"). Engels's article on the Bakunists was also used by Lenin in the report to the Congress and in the articles "On the Provisional Revolutionary Government." (Works, vol. VII, pp. 324–329).

11) Das thatige Eingreifen der Arbeiter Klasse — active intervention of the working class.

12) Fabrikstadt — Factory town.

13) Herren der Situation — masters of the situation.

14) Revolutionäre Aktion von oben — revolutionary action from above.

15) The further part of the document represents excerpts from the 3rd volume of "The Literary Legacy of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels," edited by Mehring. See "Aus dem literarischen Nachlass von Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels 1841 bis 1850. Dritter Band von Mai 1848 bis Oktober 1850."

Lenin's references to pages relate to this edition. The excerpts were used by Vladimir Ilyich in the III paragraph of the afterword to "Two Tactics." (Works, vol. VIII, pp. 119–126.) Pages 132, 211, 313, 308 of the German edition correspond to pages 138, 222, 334, 329 in the Russian edition. A Russian translation of this volume of the "Literary Legacy" of Marx and Engels did not exist before 1926, and Lenin provided the necessary quotations in his own translation. The Russian translation was published under the title: "K. Marx and F. Engels in the Epoch of the German Revolution." Giz. 1926. In subsequent notes, we have in mind this edition, designating it as — "Rus. trans. 1926."

16) Translation: "temporary committees of public safety" — "decrees... ...with legal... force opposed to force." These words were taken by Lenin from Mehring's "introduction" to the aforementioned edition of Marx and Engels's articles. Mehring himself at this point cites the Neue Rheinische Zeitung. The full passage noted by Lenin reads: "... Officials... must be... declared traitors to the state, and in their place must be formed temporary committees of public safety, whose decrees alone shall be considered to have legal force. Where counter-revolutionary authorities wish to prevent the formation and official activity of these committees of public safety, force must be opposed to force in all forms." (Rus. trans., 1926, p. 65.)

17) Entscheidenden Würfel der deutschen Revolution — the decisive die of the German revolution. Words from Mehring's same "introduction." The entire phrase beginning § 9 of Mehring's introduction reads: "In October in Vienna and in November in Berlin, the fate of the German revolution was decided." (Rus. trans., 1926, p. 65.)

18) Sich für eine spezifische Arbeiterorganisation entschieden — declared themselves for a specific workers' organization. Words from Mehring's same introduction. A large passage containing these very words was translated by Lenin himself and cited in his pamphlet "Two Tactics." (Works, vol. VIII, pp. 123–124.) Cf. Rus. trans., 1926, p. 82.

19) Translation: "Suppress the intrigues of reaction... from the actually existing order... remove everything contradicting the principle of popular sovereignty." The cited words are taken from the article "The German National Assembly, May 31, 1848." Lenin translated the corresponding passage of the article in full for his pamphlet "Two Tactics" (Works, vol. VIII, pp. 120–121). Cf. Rus. trans., 1926, p. 87.

20) Translation: "The revolution was not carried through to the end. The people were victorious. But direct power passed not into its hands, but into the hands of the large bourgeoisie." The cited words are taken from the article "Camphausen's Ministry," June 13, 1848. Lenin translated the corresponding passage of the article in full for the pamphlet "Two Tactics." (Works, vol. VIII, p. 121.) Cf. Rus. trans., 1926, p. 99.

21) These words represent a hasty translation of a phrase fully translated by Lenin in the pamph. "Two Tactics." (Same location.) "The large bourgeoisie, counter-revolutionary from the very beginning, concluded a defensive and offensive alliance with reaction out of fear of the people, i.e., out of fear of the